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...Berkshire unwinds its merger arb bet Billionaire Warren Buffett is often thought of as the ultimate investor of long-term capital....
...Lucidity voted for Alice Schroeder’s The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, a “warts and all account of a great investor, business value and human nature. Timeless in my opinion....
...Allied Progress, a progressive group, has been running advertising campaigns in Arizona and Nevada calling on Republican senators Jeff Flake and Dean Heller to reject him....
...In 1981, President Reagan nominated him to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and then in 1986 put his name forward for the Supreme Court on the retirement of Warren Burger....
...Despite Republican concerns, signs of US sway at the FSB emerged this month with the revelation that the Bank of England had written to the US Treasury to ask why the reinsurance business of Warren Buffett...
...After getting the gold question off his chest, Mr Heller asked a pointed question about QE and whether it was causing “an equity bubble in today’s stock market”....
...Most analysts expect Mr Heller to eke out a win....
...The itinerary listed Gary Cohn and Dave Heller, two Goldman executives, as attendees....
...So, Mr Viniar noted the recent voluntary departure of David Heller and Edward Eisler, two of its four co-heads of securities....
...Rebecca Warren’s sculptures, voluptuous female figures made from unfired clay, combine wit, intelligence and art historical references that were a “playfully prod at the male modernist canon,” said Heller...
...There’s a full-scale replica of the Forum, a warren of working-class streets, markets, villas and gardens. It looks tremendous, but also weird, because this Rome is grubby rather than grandiose....
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